Although she didn’t win anything, math teacher Audrey Prager said being on Deal or No Deal” for Teachers Week was “a lot of fun.”
“Meeting the other teachers was really fun,” Prager said. “I think we really bonded as a group.”
“Deal or No Deal,” a game show on NBC, ran five episodes from Monday, Sept. 28 to Friday, Oct. 2, where all of the contestants were teachers.
Prager said that she and her daughter went to an audition June 21 at the Boston Seaport Hotel.
“The line went on forever,” Prager said. “There were approximately 3,000 people there.
“We got there at about 10:30 a.m., and we didn’t get inside until 2 p.m., and we didn’t have the interview until about 3.”
According to Prager, 200 contestants were chosen as finalists and returned the next week.
“It was a more lengthy process, with more individual taping,” Prager said. “It took about 3 hours.
“At the end of the process, they said they’d call us in mid-July if they wanted to use us in the show. I got a phone call on July 16 asking if I would be on the show.”
Prager said the studio provided a hotel for the contestants in Waterford, Conn., where the shows were taped. All five episodes were taped Tuesday, July 28, she said.
In the game during Teachers Week, 22 teachers stand on the stage, each with a briefcase.
In the beginning of the game, a wheel is spun, with 22 corresponding numbers.
The number the spinner lands on corresponds to the teacher who is picked to play.
Each briefcase is unmarked but numbered and contains an amount of money ranging from one cent to $500,000.
The teacher then chooses to either keep their briefcase or swap with another player, but they don’t know how much money is in any of the briefcases.
Prager said she was never picked to play, but she was on stage in each episode.
“They might still call me again,” Prager said.
“It’d be nice to do it again next summer.”

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